"Is this... intentional?"
Listening to the mechanical woman's voice beside her ear—a sound she had gradually grown accustomed to—Su Yuzu couldn't shake the illusion that this [Spring Return Limited Pool] had appeared as a set piece alongside the previous [Newbie Ten-Pull Headhunting Permit].
It reached the point where... she even harbored the delusion that this [Limited Pool] was nothing more than a single ten-pull for her.
As for hitting the soft pity only to get spooked by something weird, or hitting the hard pity at the very bottom... for her, those were things that simply did not happen.
Ahem—
Su Yuzu hereby solemnly declared: She was a gacha king. A bona fide gacha king.
Terms like 'pay-to-win sow' or 'African Chief' had absolutely nothing to do with her existence.
Hearing the notification that the [Limited Pool] had opened, Su Yuzu clicked directly on the [Operator Recruitment] page.
Sure enough—
Aside from the daily recruitment page, a brand-new recruitment page had appeared.
On the screen, Sakura Mai stood with awe-inspiring grace in a white trench coat.
The young girl in the character art wore a white trench coat similar to the one Sakura Mai wore in front of Su Yuzu right now.
But... it was slightly different from the girl standing before her.
In the art, Sakura Mai twisted her body as if drawing a blade, with only her left arm sleeved in the white coat.
Accompanying the girl's motion of twisting to draw her sword, the battle-worn trench coat flared high, revealing the crimson lining inside and... the girl's snowy white, perfect, and powerfully lined shoulders and arms.
Beneath the trench coat... Sakura Mai, in her sword-drawing stance, was wrapped in only a few sparse bandages.
Her drawing right arm, shoulder, and snowy back were almost completely exposed.
The girl's shoulders, arms, snowy back, and waistlines—filled with a sense of power—made Su Yuzu just want to say... Sister, slay me.
Next to Sakura Mai's character art was a row of slanted stars and several lines of small text.
[☆☆☆☆☆☆]
[Sword Princess of Erasure: Sakura Mai.]
[The legitimate daughter of the Sakura family.]
[Inheritor of the Sakura family's power of Erasure and the 'Father'—Sword Princess of Frenzied Assault: Tennoji Jurei, the Maiden of the Frenzied Sword.]
[Level 30 - Sword of Will user.]
[...]
'Wait?'
'Wait a second...'
Su Yuzu suddenly wanted to press her temples, which were throbbing with pain.
She felt there was something slightly off about Sakura Mai's character introduction.
Sakura Mai's 'Father'... Sword Princess of Frenzied Assault!??
Tennoji Jurei!??
What kind of weird super-development is this?
Although... given the background capabilities of the [Technology Division] in this era, achieving such a thing didn't seem particularly difficult.
But... when this matter actually appeared right in front of Su Yuzu, she still felt as if a massive impact was rushing straight at her face.
However—
None of that was important right now.
The most important thing for Su Yuzu at this moment was... she was looking at the ten-pull button lighting up in the bottom right corner of the recruitment page.
Originally, she wanted to wait until after watching the movie with Kujou Katora.
She planned to return to her cozy dorm room, bathe and change clothes, and burn incense to pray before doing the ten-pull.
But... the current situation seemed to be saying—
Can you even hold back in this situation?
You're probably not some saint who can remain undisturbed, right?
Could Su Yuzu tolerate this?
She clicked directly on the ten-pull.
[--Maiden Praying--]
A seven-colored meteor streaked directly across Su Yuzu's vision.
Su Yuzu was ecstatic in her heart.
See—
What did she say?
She is a gacha king, right!
She really is a gacha king.
She had been reborn into another world in such an embarrassing way of death, and then spent over a dozen years living miserably.
Now—
It was her time to get rich!
With an excited heart and trembling hands, Su Yuzu's consciousness followed the seven-colored meteor before her.
In the next second, Su Yuzu once again felt her consciousness seem to expand in an instant, passing through the movie theater, passing through the entire Keigunen Private Academy.
Inside Keigunen Private Academy and all the nearby buildings transformed into dark blocks, manifesting before her.
In front of Su Yuzu, Sakura Mai suddenly frowned.
She looked at the girl maintaining an obedient bowing posture in front of her.
She could sense that familiar yet subtle mental fluctuation, which had swept through the campus before, blooming once again.
Moreover—
This time, Sakura Mai could feel it.
That subtle mental fluctuation came from the cute girl in front of her.
It was just that... the reason Sakura Mai described that mental fluctuation as subtle was that it didn't feel like a human's mental fluctuation at all.
It was more like... back when she gripped the [Sword of Will], before signing the contract with the Sword of Will.
The mental fluctuation emitted by the Sword of Will as it sought a master.
It was just slightly different.
Sakura Mai prepared to reach out her hand.
Meanwhile, in Su Yuzu's eyes, points of light lit up one after another in the dark world.
Gray ones... green ones... blue ones... purple ones...
And the one right in front of her, the most dazzling halo of seven-colored brilliance.
It's in the bag!
Who else could the six-star Operator in front of her be?
Could this even spook?
Su Yuzu was simply swelling with unbearable smugness.
Sister Sakura is definitely going to kill me, okay!
Slurp—
Sister's waist really looks good.
[Ding—]
[Weapon: Practice Kodachi.]
[☆]
Su Yuzu was furious. Can the kodachi just go die already?
Why are you everywhere?
Without even wanting to spare the kodachi another glance, the tentacles of Su Yuzu's thoughts set sail directly, chasing toward the next point of light.
[Ding Ding Ding Ding—]
[Favorability Gift: Tennoji Dojo Tsukudani Cooking Manual.]
[☆☆☆☆]
Su Yuzu almost laughed out loud.
The name of this favorability gift was obviously meant for Sister Sakura... no, for Sister Mai.
Even Sister Mai's 'Father's' surname had come out.
'System~' Su Yuzu called out affectionately to the [Operator Development] game in her heart. 'You did good this wave, you did good!'
Can this spook?
How could this possibly spook?
Is there a second six-star in front of me?
[Ding Ding—]
[Operator: Xinqiu]
[☆☆]
[...]
A green light lit up inside the movie theater.
Among the innocent spectators knocked out by Soga Yura, a girl who had fallen miserably headfirst into the gap between the seats detached from the dark world.
But... Su Yuzu could only see the girl who had planted face-first, her two pale calves pointing at the viewing hall's ceiling. After Su Yuzu's gaze fell upon her, they even twitched twice.
When she saw those two stars, Su Yuzu understood. This was another 'innocent victim' making up the numbers.
'Too tragic.'
She offered a moment of silence for the girl in her heart.
She couldn't wait to rush to the next location.
This time was even more tragic than the last.
Aside from the innocent victim, there was only a classmate from the same department whose name Su Yuzu didn't even remember. A one-star Operator.
The rest were all weapons.
Among them was the cancer polluting the prize pool, the [Practice Kodachi].
But very quickly—
Su Yuzu had already counted to the tenth reward.
Seven-colored brilliance shot straight into the sky in the direction of the movie theater.
Su Yuzu's consciousness rushed toward the movie theater, and then... suddenly stopped dead.
"?"
"??"
"Wait a minute!"
"Wait a minute!??"
"WTF! What do you want to do!"
"No!!"
"No, ahhh!!!"
Was there anything more despairing than the guarantee appearing right in front of you, just one click away from triggering it, only to have the connection fail on the spot due to a game glitch, and upon returning, discovering your guarantee had spooked because of a BUG?
Su Yuzu felt her consciousness being dragged away. She watched helplessly as that halo of seven-colored light in the movie theater drifted further and further away from her, her face filled with despair.
Can it even be forcibly spooked like this?
[Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding!!!]
[☆☆☆☆☆☆]
"I don't want it!"
"I don't want it, ahhh!!!"
"I only want Sister's waist!"
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